Expect spoilers.

On Tim Lucas’ DVD commentary track for Lisa And the Devil, he asserts that the manner in which Elke Sommer falls in death against a wall is an homage to the death of the Alida Valli nurse character in Franju’s Eyes Without A Face. As Warner Wolf would say, let’s go to the videotape:

Lisa:

Eyes:

Yeah, I guess I buy it. Seeing as Alida Valli is also in the cast of Lisa And The Devil playing the Countess, it’s plausible something like that could be on Bava’s mind.